SIGHT OF THE SEA.
BY COMMANDER E. HAMIL
·TON CURREY, R.N. Sight of the sca; to some it
moans nothing, to others muola. Not everything, because man is a land animal and in the ond comes babk to solid earth. But tho sou
mone to the seafarer something which he is hard put to it to ex plain.
Power, mystery, bonuty, of course; but also hardship, trial, danger long days of languorous ocstasy, but also longer nights of
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thing with which he cannot wros- tlo, should the high gods deside that his time has come,
Nowadays man has matoliod himsolf with the oconn, and the struggle has become less unequal than it was in the days that are past; when, hugoly daring, mon of groat heart, such as Vasco da Gama and Columbus, fared forth to seek the rogions in which dwolt fabled city of El Dorado... Prostor John, or haply to find the
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BIJOU SCENIC THEATRE.
It was of such stuff as this that the droams of the old-time mariners wore fashioned; and, if they were not realised, there came 787] others to succood thom in the quest, as full of courage, as
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TO-NIGHT! CINEMATOGRAPH VAUDEVILLE 6 Brilliant Moving Pictures 6
bitter experience; these are all strangely and nobly inquisitive, CAPSTAN MIXTURE
coiled away somewhere in that dim hold which mon live elected to call momory.
At times that boatswain's unto, to whom we cannot put a mine, blows shrilly on his silver "enll,", and his gruff voice calls us to lay hold of that, imawsor which lios slowod away.ns wo lavo, dos-, criboil.
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as were those wonders of the world: men whom the might, majesty, and dominion of the ocean could not daunt; to whom the power of the sea was an evor- prosont enemy to be fought.
In the days of tho pioneers the strand of imagination was far the strongest of all in their hawser, as mon had many illusions left in This haysor is many-stranded the fiftoonth century. Thoy and tough, being compact of dreamed of what they might find, remembraneo, imagination, sight, of how at any time immense pos- sound, and smell of the seven sibilities might lio within their soas. The coil unwinds slowly. The sen for them was tho rope comos on deck; but the wonderland, where the very next rope is a prosaic thing of hemp headland that they doublod night and tor; that dock is not fashioned yield to them such experiences as ofoakor teak, neither is it caulked had novor before fallen to the lot with pitch and spuugarn, hain- of man. mered in with "tho" caulker's' mallet. Rather is this hawser this partcalar one-of the stuff from which dreams and visions arise: dreams of the doop, visions of the crashing onslaught of the
WOYCH.
And first is the dream of bonuty, of things scon in the old days long
We Invo dong with tho fables- and the storied romance of the past; wo have cossed to look for Prostor Jolm, and we seek our El Dorado in the Stopk Exchange.
We have harnessed the ship to an engine and turned her into the
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running to a scheduled time; for
from the soa hardship, trial, and danger.
ago; when the tides of the Pantall that, wo have not banished land Firth or the rush of the Sovern "boro" woro no swifter than the glow of youtiful onthu siam. It can never be again; "Huit"; wo know it; but we have boon theto, wo have seen it, we Jiavo gripped it with both hands in a grasp so strong and nervous that something yot remains.
What was it? Quien sabo?" who knows as the Spaniard saya. Tho outward curl "of a bronking wave rolled over by tho shining copper-shoathed eutwater of a yacht; the blue perfection of a day in the Indian Ocoan, whon 'nature was all lapis Inzuli and gold; the arch of a ragged rain bow athwart a storm-driven нon.
It was one, it was all of those things, and many, many more.
Mystory who is thero among the seafarers who has not felt it? Tho midnight Mediterranoan' sproad out in a stark calm; blue- black and polished like soBIG great steel mirror; dusted with a goldon dust which is the rollection of myriad stars. Through it the. keen outwater rips liko a razor, ́and all around is fight.
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So-it-is, and so it shall be to dla... end; that the coil which lies in the hold of momory is not sott down upon the floor thereof in out and even rings: for it is rayed and worn in many places; soaked with the bring of bitter experienco; wonkanod with half- forgotton trials; twisted with re- grots.
! All the same, it is tliore, and the sonfarer must make the best of it; this long ropa into which uro twisted the remembrances of n. lifetime, bred of the sound, the smoll, and the sight of the son.
It is phosphorosconce, and sejenco doubtless can define for you exactly why this phenomenon occurs. But not altogether, the seafarer feels; for this is some thing which in all his experience ho has never seen before, as it is not the mere lash and sparkto of the littlo waves that leap and dance in the darkness; it is as though the bows of the ship were ponstrating some hidden arcana, which was revealing itself in a ghostly radianco that reaches to-) night on high as mast and'funuel, Deep in the white-hot heart of the ship the engines pulso rhyth mically; but that sound is part of the nature of things gormane to the ocoun, and does not affront the deathly stillness which broods, over sea sud sky; while out of the violet-coloured, clear darkness the mysterious radiancorisos ip a flood around the ship.
Do the spirits of drowned sailors." shine upward from the deep? Again, who knows?
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Mystery of light out of choking darkness in a tropic son, when in i blackness tluck, gross, palpable, the sheet-lightning ringed the whole horizon till, it was near as light as day; and thon overhead the lovin-bolts wore flung from the hand of Jovo, criss-crossing, the- zonith in jaggod blinding lores, while the thunder rang in deafon- ed oars, awful as the sound of doom.
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Friday, 21st April. Bijou Scenic Theatre, 9.15 p.m. Empire Cinematograph, 9.15 p.m.
Saturday, 22nd April. Y.M.C.A. (Chinese Department) Annual Sports.
Volunteers' Dinner,
Hongkong Jockey Club, Half- Yearly Mooling, 12.30 p.m.
Skating Race, at Victoria Skating Rink, 7 p.m.
Sunday, 23rd April. Ball at Victoria Skating Rink.
Monday, 24th April Criminal Sessions.
School Sports, Finals, at Raco Course.
Tuesday, 25th April. Hongkong Electrio Company Aununl Mosting, noon.
Sanitary Board Meeting, 3.45
p.m.
Wednesday, 26th April. Union Insurance Company Meeting, noon.
China Traders' Company Meet-
ing, 12.30 p.m.
Friday, 28th April. Stockbrokore Association's Set-
And then, sudden and swift asling Day for April.
Philharmonio Concert.
Saturday, 20th April. Departure of Coronation Con tingent.
fato, it consed the spirit of the hurricana wailed through the frightened darkness; there camo rain, such as none had over soon before; and then "the rushing Entries close for Lawn Bowls mighty, wind." Power: is not Open Singles Champianelip, the sea instinct with this quality? Hongkong Football Club An At Limos restrained and latent,nual Dinner.
but nevertheless, the seafarer is
Monday, 1st May,
consolona shut if is there waiting - Shanghai Spring Race' Meet- fo fing forth upon him some.
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Optional Cargo will be carried on naless notice to the contrary, be given to-day,
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